After 15 Years, Scaffolding Finally Removed from Parthenon

For the archetypal clip successful 15 years, the Parthenon temple connected the Acropolis tin beryllium seen wholly unobstructed, aft the past large pieces of scaffolding were removed from the past monument precocious past month.

The removal of the metallic model from the westbound broadside of the Parthenon marks a large milestone successful a decades-long restoration and attraction project. 

Visitors tin present bask a wide presumption of the 5th-century B.C. temple, peculiarly from the country astir the Odeon of Herodes Atticus below.

While the monolithic outer scaffolding is gone, officials said that smaller, much flexible platforms volition inactive beryllium utilized for targeted conservation enactment connected the monument successful the adjacent future.